Mark Sundeen

One of America’s most innovative writers of literary nonfiction, Mark Sundeen is the author of The Man Who Quit Money. This bestselling account of Utahn Daniel Suelo, who has lived since 2000 without cash or barter credit, has sparked conversations worldwide about the intersection of finance, ethics, and religion. Sundeen has appeared on the MSNBC’s TODAY Show, The Dylan Ratigan Show, BBC, and numerous public radio programs, as well as at speaking engagements at bookstores, colleges, churches, and writing conferences.

A correspondent for Outside Magazine, Sundeen has also written award-winning nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, The Believer, and McSweeney’s. His books include Car Camping and The Making of Toro, and he co-authored North by Northwestern, which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His latest book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America, traces the search for the simple life through stories of new American pioneers seeking a more sustainable, ethical, and authentic life. His work has been translated into five languages.

Sundeen is a nonfiction faculty member of the MFA creative writing program at Southern New Hampshire University. He has taught nonfiction at the University of New Mexico and the Taos Writers Conference. He won the Montana Innovative Artist Award in 2012 and the Utah Arts Council grant in 2006. Sundeen lives in Montana and Utah.

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